Is America truly "...Land of the Free and Home of the Brave..."? Are you PROUD or ASHAMED to be American...?

Question

If you're PROUD, why do you love America?
If you're ASHAMED, why don't you love America?

Answer 1

I am proud to be an American, I am ashamed of those who in office voilate the very oaths they are under affirmation to uphold, defend and preserve.
Our founding fathers left their homes and came to America to start a new world, a world where people had the right to choose the religion of their choice without persecution. They also did not believe that a man should be placed in jail because he owed someone money, thus they were against debtor prisons. They believed that all men were created equal and that each person had the right to liberty and the persuit of happiness. That that right was not granted by man but by the creator.
The consitution declares itself the supreme law of the land, therefore there is no federal law, no state law or city ordance that can supercede it. It goes on and states that any law that is found in contridiction of it is null and void. We were meant to be a country of the people and for the people. Not a country where one because of his income had more rights than those who did not have the same amount of money. We are each granted equal protection of the law under the consitution, unfortunately we have had leaders in office over the years who did not honour their oaths, they enacted laws that are in direct contridiction of the consitution. They deglated duties that congress was to fullfill to private corporations, which they had no right to do. They are currently taxing the citizens in violation of the consitution because it is tax without approriation, it is a slave tax, and the 13th admendment strictly forbids slavery. Yet our current government believes that it owns the citizens of this nation. It doesn't but acts as if it does. In 1913 on Christmas eve when the majority of congressmen had returned to their homes for the holidays, a group of congressmen stayed behind and enacted what has become known as the Federal Reserve Act. It is this act that Woodrow Wilson claimed on his death bed that he had betrayed his country unaware. It was an act just like it that Andrew Jackson called a den of theives and vipers and by his eternal God he was going to route them out. He refused to renew their charter and was able to keep them out for 77 years. Lincoln during the civil war stated he had two great enemies, the south in frount of him and the international bankers behind him, of the two he feared the bankers the most. Lincoln did not finance the civil war through international bankers that wanted to charge him 29% intrest rate, he instead went to congress and told congress to issue out from the treasury the funds needed to finance the war. They became known as Lincoln greenbacks because they were green on the back side. Then in 1913 we had a private corporation to take control of our monetary system. Ben Franklin stated that if a private corporation ever got a hold of the monetary system that the children of the founding fathers would grow up homeless in the land that their fathers founded. It is intresting to note that the only bill that does not bare the face of a dead president is the 100 dollar bill which has the face of Ben Franklin on it who was never president. It is also intresting to note that the first president is on the 1 dollar bill whereas the man who was not ever president is on the 100 dollar bill. Then we had the great depression after this event of 1913, think that there was really a shortage of money? Not really it was the means in which this private corporation was able to take control of the publishing houses, newspapers, etc. How do you control the masses? Simple you control what they know. Why do you think our government hates the internet so much. They cannot control its content. Then in 1960 we had a very close election, between Richard Nixon and JFK. JFK won. JFK had no intrest in keeping troops in Vietnam and was in the process of withdrawing all troops who were there. He also understood the consitution and realized that congress had made a grave error by deglating their duty to a private corporation which they had no right to do. Do you realize that the national debt in this country can never and I do mean never be paid? How do I know this to be a fact? Simple the money to pay the intrest on the debt had not ever been created nor placed into circulation. We have trillions dollars of debt, yet there is aproximately only 265 billion in circulation. Talk to an accountant and ask them how this is possible. Its the funny math that Ben Franklin understood all to well. It is also one of the reasons behind JFK's murder. See in April of 1963 JFK ordered congress to issue out the money to pay the intrest on the national debt bypassing the federal reserve bank, in Nov 1963 he was murdered. LBJ did 2 things within the first 48 hours of JFK's death, he did a 180 degree turn on the Vietnam war and he resended JFK's order to congress. The reason I speak of his murder as being an important fact in todays events is because the persons responsible for his murder are still in power today. They view the consitution as a hinderance for their plans and a burden. The consitution is the people's contract that the government will behave and act in a certian manner. That contract was broken in Nov 1963, the government has been in breach of this contract since, thus they have stolen more and more of the citizens rights which are granted to them and acknowledged by the consitution. They have violated their oaths of office to protect the few elite owners of banks, insurance agencies, big oil, pharmacuetic companies, defense contractors ect over the people. The Consitution only protected one business and that was the freedom of the press, the press has been under attack for quite some time. When Ronald Regan deregulated the media, he permitted that the media be in the hands of a few. We now have info entertainment instead of news. The real stories are not ever published, and if by chance they do get some time it is very briefly. The people who murdered JFK are still in high offices today and still in control of what is going on, they are not patriots, they are the figure heads of big corporations and big corporations could care less about equality, freedom, liberty or the pursuit of happiness. They care only about profits and don't really care who they kill to get them. It is this illegal government that is in operation now that I am ashamed of, it has been subsituted to replace our legal government and it is wrong. Those who profit from them make so much money that they don't care. So once again the working smuck and the poor get shafted again. Unlike our forefathers before us we have no new world in which to escape their persecution, but our forefathers did leave us the tools necessary to fight back. They are called impeachment, high crimes and misameanors. The people of this nation cannot continue to allow the corrupt politicians to hide behind national security. That is a hoax, because the biggest national security crisis facing this country today is the shreading of our consitutional protections. Duke Cunningham plead guilty to bribery and corruption, he should have been tried for treason. He took money from the defense dept for defense contracts, he placed those funds in dummy corporations and funnelled the money back to the republican party. The defense dept came out and stated that 80% of the american soliders who died in Iraq would not have died if they had proper body armour. To me that is treason.
It is the crimes committed by the administrations since JFK's death that I am ashamed of, and they are many. Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Russian/Afganistan war where the CIA trained Osma Bin Laden and his freedom fighters, along with selling them weapons and providing financial support. The Iranian hostage crisis where George H. W. Bush and Ronald Regan make a deal with the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the elections so as to defeat a resigning president. I believe that is also treason. There are aproximately 500,000 persons dead in Central America by our support of the Contra's. Regan and Bush sold weapons to Iran against the orders and laws of congress, then took the profits from these sales to support the contras which they were instructed by congress not to do. Impeachment should have occurred but it did not. Citizens in Waco were attacked and murdered by the very government who was suppose to protect them, instead the government brought out the military against them, the media demonized them, then 3 days after their murders the crime scene is bulldozed over by the government. No stash of weapons are ever shown to the citizens. Do you realize that the persons indicted by the government were all aquited on the charges the government charged them with? Randy Weaver and Ruby ridge. The government awarded him millions of dollars in an out of court settlement. That don't bring his wife and son back to life. Today not one person in government has been held accountable for those murders of those citizens. Oklahoma city. Do you really believe that Timothy McVeigh was able to do this without government involvement? Look at the building, half of that building came down, again more controlled demolition. One bomb would not have created that type of damage.
Bosina, Kosovo what are the real truths behind those actions? Will we ever know. It is somemore of the CIA plans like the bay of pigs?
If we are hated all over the world, it is because our foreign policy does not follow the mandates of our consitution which makes us hippocrits. It also makes us liars.
It is actions like these that politicians hide behind national securtiy because they know that the citizens will not accept these actions. JFK delivered a good speech about secret societies and freedom of the press, you can hear it and see the video on it at www.youtube.com under videos search JFK secret societies and freedom of the press.
I grieve for what was stolen from me before my birth and what was taken from me again when I was 7 years old. This country would have been a different place and possibley a better society had JFK not been murdered in Dallas Nov 22, 1963. It tears at my heart and soul that the persons responsible for his murder are still in power today. The only hope I have is that the elected leaders we have are still under oath and affirmation to uphold, defend and preserve the Constitution of the United States of America. As citizens we need to take a more active role in our government and hold our elected officials feet to the fire, if they violate their oaths of office they ought to be indicted and tried for treason. To the devil with campign fraud and bribery call it what it is and that is treason.

Answer 2

I love this country. The level of opportunity is unsurpassed. The government although flawed, as all governments are, is still a far sight better than the alternatives. The freedoms we enjoy are unmatched anywhere else in the world.

The negative answers to these types of questions always amaze me. I am not talking about the I hate the administration answers, because many of them still profess to be proud Americans. It is okay to disagree with the administration, as freedom of speech is part of the allure of being an American. No, the ones that amaze me are the no I am not proud answers. I will never understand how you cannot be proud of America and what she stands for, the values that most Americans hold dear. To say that you are not a proud American indicates that you think someplace else is better. If someplace else is better I do not understand why you don't live there. This is not an America love it or leave it statement, just a real curiousity of mine.

Answer 3

I'm proud to be American, though sometimes I cringe at the things people say and do. I feel that America is the same as any other country: It has good and bad. I'm also proud of my German heritage, though the German government did some horrible things in the past.
America has done some horrible things (e.g. segregation, Jim Crow laws, slavery, discrimination against the Chinese, Irish and everyone else that came into the country, hanging back during WWII, putting the Japanese into concentration camps during WWII, letting the war protesters lose Vietnam for us...the list goes on and on), but I'm proud that those things have made us stronger instead of destroying us.
No matter what the future throws our way, we'll rise above it. Our flag will still fly, and we'll still pledge allegiance to it.
That's why I'm proud.

Answer 4

America is not the "land of the free and the home of the brave." The U.S. government has become one of the most oppressive in the world. I am ashamed to be an American.

Answer 5

This is still the best place on earth to live. We have a very corrupt and dangerous President currently and his administration is eqally as bad. Soon they will be gone and we will have to fix all of their messes. As Americans we have gone thru many things that were shameful such as slavery but then came the civil rights movement, segregation and then came integration. We have had hardships like the Great Depression and then came many years of a healthy economy and more multimillionares and billionaires ever. During Katrina we saw what very average Americans did to help one another while the local, state and federal governments stood paralyxed. During the Tsumani, Americans gave financially and many went to help out. The 911 tragedies brought America and the world together as never before. All in all, it is still a great country.

Answer 6

I'm very Proud of The United States.

This country and the society it has produced is a beacon of civilization for all humanity throughout all time.

No where else and at no other time has every race and culture on the planet lived within the same border under the same political system.

The Idea of a popular revolution and political self determination came from here.

The Idea of individual political and human rights is a U.S. original.
Woman's Suffrage and Universal Suffrage come from the U.S.

while I know there are failings -no human derived system is perfect- all in all this country has had a positive and far reaching effect on the world and the human beings in it

Answer 7

America is truly "Land of Free" that went out of control with lost sense of direction on planet earth.
Home of the Brave not so?
When little children start deserting their tour of duty.
There's nothing to be proud or ashamed with.
We are all living human kind living under the same sun and do make mistakes along the way on planet earth.
All we have to do is correct it instead of pointing fingers at others on the faults.

Answer 8

PROUD. I would hate to live in another country. I think those that are ashamed to be an American should leave. That's the beauty of America... You don't have to stay here if you don't like it.

Answer 9

Honestly - America is going through a period of [short term political] "dark ages" Our political leaders are uneducated, theologically based instead of scientifically based, which leads to short sightedness and many errors in our public policy. Mixing religion, ignorance and power is a dangerous chemistry.

I traveled to Italy recently and felt a little uncomfortable - and at one point had to apologize for the American's that voted for Bush twice. How embarassing.

Hopefully new leadership, and some policy tweaking and things will get a little better. Ultimately I think the Constitution is fatally flawed and we need some serious changes to move us onto solid ground for the next several centuries.

Lobbying is too strong, Congress is too short sighted (2 or 6 year goals) Inefficiency in our economic output will cost us dearly if major changes aren't made in energy, resouce and transportation policy to name but just a few areas. We need to put our most knowledgable into the positions of power - make a new Senate and Executive Cabinet that isn't elected/appointed by the mob, but interviewed by our academic leaders, and made up of our best efficiency experts, economists, statisticians, philosophers, biologists, botonists, physicists, chemists etc. etc. . . Minimize Executive leadership and let power fall with the knowledgable. (that would be quite the constitutional amendment wouldn't it)

Answer 10

I'm an American, and grateful that I was born in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Pride assumes I had something to do with it, I didn't, it was the luck of the gene pool. I love this country, the Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution. I love the fact they I still have the right to dissent, and that I can disagree with our president, and the mainstream of political thought, and still be a free citizen of this country.

Answer 11

I am not an american, but I do think the USA is the land of the free and the home of the brave. I leived there for a year and went home. I am proud I can say I lived there. It is a great country (not perfect, there is no such thing).